Scenes of the Iliad | liebil04: Hector leaves for battle. It is then his wife Andromache tells him: "You, Hector, are father and mother and brother to me, as well as my beloved husband. Have pity on me now; stay here in the city, and do not make your boy an orphan and your wife a widow." (Andromache to Hector. Homer, Iliad 6.430). Hector addresses then a vain prayer to the gods: "Grant that this boy of mine be as strong and brave as I; a mighty king of Troy." (Hector. Homer, Iliad 6.475). Liebig sets.